Vladimir Putin: A Personal Comment

I am very happy that you have settled yourself in a nice, congeginal admosphere and i wish a lovely life till your last minute..
Politics is something that the society admires.
In India Gandhi a non-politician had thrown out the rascals who had invaded and occupied for 200 years.
In Germany a half informed catholic illiterated had ruled and ruined with the help of all idiotic INTELLECTUALS.
In Sudan the politic is different.

I hope you understand my broken English which is not my mother-tongue.
Vladimir Putin is a regular vistor here in Germany and most of the Germans are not against his wishy washy politics.
Personally I have great respect to the critical analyticars.
What ever our future the system we endure to survive is not ideal.
but let us try our level best to leave this system with our foot-prints.
Regards.
Rama

What the hell does THAT have to do with PUTIN ?

I feel defrauded.



A more honest title
woud have been:
"My Personal Experiences With Beginning Retirement",
which I have also done again, last winter in NYC.





David





Anyway, Best Wishes on your Retirement.

Ron Price-- could you elaborate on this? Fill in some of the gaps, please.

It is all about oil. Chechnia is in the Caspian Sea area. I wouldn't be surprised if the CIA is involved as well. Who controls the lands near the oil fields control the the oil pipeline routes. Hitler invaded the Soviet Union for Caspian Sea oil.

Belated apologies for not getting back here sooner but I was not aware of the other responses. Perhaps some background on Chechnya would be useful here.-Ron in Tasmania
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A. Chechnya within Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union

Following long resistance during the 1817-1864 Caucasian War, Russia finally defeated Chechnya and annexed it in the 1870s. The Chechens' subsequent attempts at gaining independence after the fall of the Russian Empire failed and in 1922 Chechnya was incorporated into Bolshevist Russia and later into the Soviet Union (USSR). In 1936, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin created the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1944, on the orders of NKVD chief Lavrenti Beria, more than 1 million Chechens, the Ingush, and several other North Caucasian peoples were deported to Siberia[citation needed] and Central Asia, officially as punishment for alleged collaboration with the invading German forces; the Chechen-Ingush Republic was abolished. Eventually, Soviet first secretary Nikita Khrushchev granted the Vainakh (Chechen and Ingush) peoples permission to return to their homeland and restored their republic in 1957.

B. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation Treaty

Russia became an independent nation after the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991. While Russia was widely accepted as the successor state to the USSR, it lost a significant amount of its military and economic power. While ethnic Russians made up more than 80% of the population of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, significant ethnic and religious differences posed a threat of political disintegration in some regions. In the Soviet period, some of Russia's approximately 100 nationalities were granted ethnic enclaves that had various formal federal rights attached. Relations of these entities with the federal government and demands for autonomy erupted into a major political issue in the early 1990s. Boris Yeltsin incorporated these demands into his 1990 election campaign by claiming that their resolution was a high priority.

There was an urgent need for a law to clearly define the powers of each federal subject. Such a law was passed on March 31, 1992, when Yeltsin and Ruslan Khasbulatov, then chairman of the Russian Supreme Soviet and an ethnic Chechen himself, signed the Federation Treaty bilaterally with 86 out of 88 federal subjects. In almost all cases, demands for greater autonomy or independence were satisfied by concessions of regional autonomy and tax privileges. The treaty outlined three basic types of federal subjects and the powers that were reserved for local and federal government. The only federal subjects that did not sign the treaty were Chechnya and Tatarstan. Eventually, in the spring of 1994, President Yeltsin signed a special political accord with Mintimer Shaeymiev, the president of Tatarstan, granting many of its demands for greater autonomy for the republic within Russia; thus, Chechnya remained the only federal subject that did not sign the treaty. Neither Yeltsin nor the Chechen government attempted any serious negotiations and the situation would deteriorate into a full-scale conflict.

The story is a long one and I am no expert on this story, but I thought some background would be useful here.-Ron